The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-02-19

past 8 years, concerning disorders OF tn
| human Kidneys and the organs which dis
eased Kidneys so easily break do,onf Yos
unprejuoiced accept in fduor Of Truth. 4
is needless to sag, no medical Journal Of
| "Code' standing Mould admit these facts
| for very obuious reasons.
III. H. WARNER Dc CO.,
Proprietors of "Warner's Safe Cure"
That we may emphasize and clearly OK
plain the relation the kidneys sustain to the
general health, and how much is dependent
upon them, we propose, metaphorically
speaking, to take one from the human body,
place in the wash-bowl before US, and exam
inc it for the public benefit.
You will imagine that we have before us a
body shaped like bean, smooth and glisten-
ing, about four inches in length, two in
width, and one in thickness 1t ordinarily
weighs in the adult male, about five ounces,
but is somewhat lighter in the female. A
small organ? you say. But understand the
body of the average size man contains about
ten quarts of blood, Of 0hich every drop
passes through these filters or sewers, as they
may be called, many times a day, as often
as through the heart, making complete
revolution in three minutes. From the blood
they separate the waste material, working
away steadily night and day, sleeping or
waking, tireless as the heart itself, and fully
of as much vital Importance; removing i'm
purities from sixty-ive gallons of blood each
hour, or about forty nine barrels each day,
or 9,125 hogsheads year! What wonder
that the kidneys can last any length of time
under this prodigious strain, treated and
neglected as they are?
We slice this delicate organ open length
wise with our knife, and will roughly de-
scribe its interior.
We find it to be of a reddish brown color,
soft and easily torn; filled with hundreds of
little tubes, short and like, starting
from the arteries, ending in little tuft about
midway from the outside opening into a
cavity of considerable size, which is called
the pelvis, or, roughly speaking, sac, which
is for the purpose of holding the water to
further undergo publication before it passes
down from here into the ureter, and 80 on
to the outside of the body. These little tubes
are the filters which do their work automat-
ically, and right here is avhere the disease OF
the kidney first begins.
Doing the vast amount of work which
they are obliged to, from the slightest irreg-
ularity in our habits, from cold, from high
living, from stimulants or thousand and
one other causes which occur every day, they
become somewhat weakened in their nerve
force.
What is the result? Congestion or stop
page of the current of blood in the small
blood vessels surrounding them, which be-
come blocked; these delicate membranes are
irritated; Inflammation is set up, then pus
is formed, which collects in the pelvis or
sac; the tubes are at first partially, and
soon are totally, unable to do their work.
The pelvic sac goes on distending with this
corruption, pressing upon the blood vessels
All this time, remember, the blood, which
is entering the kidneys to be filtered, is pass
ing through this terrible, disgusting pus,
for it cannot take any other route!
Stop and think of it for moment. Do
you realize the Importance, nay the vital
necessity, of having the kidneys in order?
Can you expect when they are diseased or
can have pure blood and escape disease? 1t
would be just as reasonable to expect, if a
pest-house were set across Broadway and
countless thousands were compelled to go
through its pestilential doors, an escape from
contagion and disease, as fer one to expect
the blood to escape pollution when constantly
running through diseased kidney.
Now, what is the result2 Why, that the
blood takes up and deposits this poison as it
sweeps along into every organ, into every
inch of muscle, tissue, flesh and bone, from
your head to your feet. And whenever,
from hereditary influence or otherwise, some
part of the body is weaker than another, a
countless train of diseasesis established, such
as consumption in weak lungs, dyspepsia,
where there is delicate stomach; nervous
ness, insanity, paralysis or heart disease in
those who have weak nerves.
The heart must soon feel the effects Of the
poison, as ii requires pure blood to keep 1t
number and force to compensate for the
natural stimulus wanting, in its endeavor to
crowd the impure blood through this OBJ
struction, causing pain, palpitatiOn, or an
out-of-breath feeling. Unnatural as this
forced labor is, the heart must soon falter,
becoming weaker and weaker until one day
it suddenly stops, and death from apparent
"heart disease" is the verdict.
But the medical profession, learned and
dignifed, call these diseases by high sound
ing names, treat them alone, and patients
die, for the arteries are carrying sLOi0 death
to the affected part, constantly adding fuel
brought from these suppurating pus-laden
kidneys which here in our wash-bowl are
very putrefaction itself, and which should
have been cured first.
But this is not all the kidneys have to do,
for you must remember that each adult
takes about seven pounds of nourishment
every twenty-four hours to supply the waste
of the body which is constantly going on, a
waste equal to the quantity taken. This,
too, the kidneys have to separate from the
blood with all other decomposing matter.
have no pain in the back" Mistaken man
People die of kidney disease of SO bad a char
acter that the organs are rotten, and yet they
have neuer there had a pain nor an dchei
Why? Because the disease begins, as we
have shown, in the interior of the kidney,
where there are fel0 neTues of feeling to con-
vey the sensation of pain. Why this Is 80 we
may never know.
When you consider their great work, the
delicacy of their structure, the ease with
which they are deranged, can you wonder at
the ill-health of our men and women2
Health and long life cannot be expected
when so vital an organ is impaired. No
wonder some writers say we are degenerat-
ing. Don't you see the great, the extreme
importance of keeping this machinery in
working order? Could the finest engine do
even fractional part of this work, without
attention from the engineer? Don't you
see how dangerous this hidden disease ISL 1t
is lurking about us constantly, without CIV
ing any indication of its presence.
The most skillful physicians cannot detect
it at times, for the Kidneys themselves cannot
be enamiled by any means which We have at
our command. Even an analysis of the
water, chemically and microscopically, re-
veals nothing definite in many cases, even
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